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Sen. Michael Ranzenhofer doesn’t support a pay raise for the state Legislature. And if fellow lawmakers want to make more money, they should try to find a second job in the private sector, he said.

“I don’t think it’s appropriate,” Ranzenhofer, R-Amherst, Erie County, said about the speculation of a pay hike for the state Legislature this year. “It’s not appropriate to be talking about them, to be voting for them, to be having them. Look, these are tough economic times, and it’s something that should not even be considered.”

Ranzenhofer said in the telephone interview yesterday with Gannett’s Albany ...

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